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I'm looking for childcare for my 3 children - 3 days a week after school only.


Ideally I'd like to find someone to collect them from school and bring them back to our house (rather than after school clubs etc. which in any case don't have spaces currently). This way they can still go to their clubs / have piano lesson at home etc.


I've put an ad on here but had no response apart from one person but she had young children of her own so was no good.


Where else should I be looking / advertising? Is gumtree any good?


Also could anyone give me an idea of roughly what I'd be paying for this? It would be from 3.30 pickup to I guess 6.30 latest on Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday. Children are 4, 7 and 10


Any tips much appreciated as I'm currently a bit stumped and getting concerned that I'm not going to be able to sort anything out.

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After school sole charge nanny - ?10 to ?12 an hour net. Might struggle as they would need another job to fill the hours if its their main income. Some people use them for longer hours as a housekeeper/cleaner as well to up their wages and make it more attractive.


Have you tried childcare.co.uk? There are normally plenty on there, and you can put up your own advert as far as I know.


I have a similar issue and went for an au pair in the end, although I need more days a week etc.

We found our nanny on Gumtree. You need to be very specific about what you want in terms of experience and that they will not live in. We had hundreds of replies the vast majority of which were totally inappropriate such as people living in different cities, students looking for very short term work and someone who wrote that their experience with children was that they had been a child themself!

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